Meanings
plural endamagements
- archaicuncountableusuallydamage; injury; harm
These flags of France, that are advanced here Before the eye and prospect of your town, Have hither march'd to your endamagement
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]
Origin
Compare French endommagement.
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